We offer the opportunity to create projects on the CleverMaps platform to all registered users. This article assumes that you have an account in CleverMaps, and that you are familiar with the application itself.
Please note that you need to have an account with an email address. If you have registered using the social login, you do not have your own credentials which you'll need later. You can sign up here.
Introduction
To create all projects on the platform, we use a command line interface tool called CleverMaps Shell.
This tool manages all aspects of a project, whether it is the user interface, the data model, the metrics or the data load itself. Shell is described in detail in its own section.
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Why a command line?In the future, we want the users to be able to create their projects in the application itself. The vision is to have a "studio", where everyone can easily configure the projects using a specialized user interface. But that's still a long way ahead, so in the meantime we developed this simple command line tool. It may not be so user friendly, but it gets the work perfectly done. |
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There's a few technical prerequisites you'll need to fulfill:
CleverMaps Shell (download, installation guide)
which requires Java Runtime Environment version 8+ (download from Oracle)
a good text editor
stable and preferably fast internet connection
Personal prerequisites
There is also a certain level of knowledge you need to have:
knowledge of the CleverMaps application
knowledge of the CleverMaps metadata model
basic knowledge of the JSON text format
not getting scared by a command line interface
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Data analysisThe preparation, transformation and cleaning of the data you use is a whole different subject. This documentation does not cover the work of a data analyst. It assumes that your data are valid and contain all required properties. |
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